Drach

Drach knows. Together with little Josef, he watches a pig slaughter. It is an October morning in 1906, and although the boy has no way of knowing it, the scream of the butchered animal and the taste of pig slaughter soup will return to him years later, when he comes back to Silesia after the war.

Nikodem has never been in the military. Instead, he is a renowned architect. He has a five-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and a scar above his left ear from a car accident. He has just separated from his wife to make a life with another. Drach is aware, however, that the girl is increasingly eluding the man.

Between Josef and Nikodem, the beautiful, cruel, sorrowful, and – ultimately – tragic fates of two families; a time of wars and uprisings, of death and birth, of love, betrayal, and dreams that will never come true. Drach knows about them. He sees the past and knows the future. For him, everything is now…

A family saga? The great story of Silesia? Or perhaps a total novel that defies all categorisation? The author of Morfina at his best.

The description comes from the publisher’s website.